[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[James Kerr]

On 02/10/2012 13:58, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> 2012/10/2 James Kerr <jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk>:
>> On 02/10/2012 12:26, Frank Griffin wrote:
>>
>>> At least for my part, I always viewed tainted as being the equivalent of
>>> PLF,
>>
>>
>> PLF had both free and non-free repo's.
>>
>> If you include both free and non-free in tainted, which is probably the
>> "least bad" solution, then there needs to be a way for FOSS enthusiasts (who
>> choose to do so) to avoid the non-free packages - perhaps a statement in the
>> package description would suffice.
>
> Well, are you saying that tainted includes free packages although they
> are subject to a patent?

Yes. Those are the only packages that are included at present in 
tainted. The fact that a package includes software that may be 
encumbered by patent claims does not make it non-free.

Jim